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		steveklabnik 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go I'm going to try and avoid lifetimes entirely. They're great in Rust! But I'm going to a higher level spot. I'm totally unsure about async. Right now there's no heap memory at all. I'll get there :) Sorta similar to Rust/Swift/Hylo... we'll see!

lamontcg 19 days ago [–]

So if you don't have a garbage collector, and you don't have manual memory management, and you don't have lifetimes... What do you have?

steveklabnik 19 days ago | [–]

The plan is something like mutable value semantics and linear types. I'm figuring it out :)

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